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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Which president is associated with the new deal
- Which president is associated with black tuesday
- Who was the President known for trust busting?
- What port did the majority of 2nd wave immigrants enter into the US with?
- what was the name of journalism used in the jungle?
- what two government agencies were made in response to the jungle?
- What law outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade?
- Which immigrant group was the first to experience restrictions in 1882?
- What general areas in Europe were second wave immigrants from?
- an oath that the Wade-Davis Bill required a majority of voters and government officials in Confederate states to take; it involved swearing that they had never supported the Confederacy
- a loan system in which store owners extended credit to farmers for the purchase of goods in exchange for a portion of their future crops
- group who contested Lincoln's treatment of Confederate states and proposed harsher punishments
- a pejorative term used for southern whites who supported Reconstruction
- a term used for southern whites committed to rolling back the gains of Reconstruction
- the agreement between Republicans and Democrats, after the contested election of 1876, in which Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for withdrawing the last of the federal troops from the South
- a white vigilante organization that engaged in terroristic violence with the aim of stopping Reconstruction
- According to Foner, what was the major problem that the 15th Amendment attempted to solve?
- laws some southern states designed to maintain white supremacy by keeping freed people impoverished and in debt
- a crop-lien system in which people paid rent on land they farmed (but did not own) with the crops they grew
- What is generally considered to be the greatest failure of the Freedmens Bureau?